What loud uproar bursts from that door!
The wedding-guests are there:

But in the garden-bower the bride
And bride-maids singing are:

And hark the little vesper bell,
Which biddeth me to prayer!

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been
Alone on a wide wide sea:

So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.

O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me,

To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company!--

To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,

While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,

And youths and maidens gay!
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell

To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us

He made and loveth all.
The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest

Turned from the bridegroom's door.
He went like one that hath been stunned,

And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,

He rose the morrow morn.
The End

• lonely [´ləunli] a.孤独的；无人烟的 (初中英语单词)
• goodly [´gudli] a.适意的；漂亮的 (高中英语单词)
• loving [´lʌviŋ] a.爱的，有爱情的 (高中英语单词)
• mariner [´mærinə] n.海员；水手 (高中英语单词)
• uproar [´ʌprɔ:] n.喧嚣；骚动；轰鸣，轰动 (英语四级单词)
• morrow [´mɔrəu] n.翌日 (英语四级单词)